作者简介 大卫·哈维（David Harvey），1935年生于英国肯特郡，1957年获英国剑桥大学学士学位，1961年获该校博士学位。曾任教于英国布里斯托尔大学、美国宾州大学、英国牛津大学和美国约翰·霍普金斯大学，现任教于纽约市立大学研究生中心和伦敦经济学院。哈维是当今世界最主要的批判性知识分子，是当代西方新马克思主义的重要代表人物之一。他至今已经出版了十部著作，其中包括《地理学中的解释》、《社会正义与城市》、《资本的限度》、《资本的都市化》、《后现代的状况》，以及《资本的空间》和《新帝国主义》等。 译者简介 黄煜文，1974年生，台湾大学历史学硕士，现为专职译者，译著甚丰。重要译作有《论历史》、《世纪末的维也纳》、《肉体与石头》、《孩子的历史》、《错的是我们，不是我：家暴的动力关系》、《惩罚与现代社会》、《你的权利从哪里来？》等。

Collecting David Harvey's finest work on Paris during the second empire, "Paris, The Capital of Modernity" offers brilliant insights ranging from the birth of consumerist spectacle on the Parisian boulevards, the creative visions of Balzac, Baudelaire and Zola, and the reactionary cultural politics of the bombastic Sacre Couer. Stunning in scope and form, this is a long-awaited...(展开全部)

“Beautifully written and refreshingly original… makes us see [Paris] in a different light.” -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review Swapping his native San Francisco for the City of Light, travel writer David Downie arrived in Paris in 1986 on a one-way ticket, his head full of romantic notions. Curiosity and the legs of a cross-country runner propelled him daily from an un...(展开全部)

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In 1941, Henry Miller, the author of Tropic of Cancer, was commissioned by a Los Angeles bookseller to write an erotic novel for a dollar a page. Under the Roofs of Paris (originally published as Opus Pistorum) is that book. Here one finds Miller’s characteristic candor, wit, self-mockery, and celebration of the good life. From Marcelle to Tania, to Alexandra, to Anna, and from...(展开全部)

"This lively history charts the growth of Paris from a city of crowded alleyways and irregular buildings into a modern marvel."--New Yorker At the beginning of the seventeenth century, Paris was known for isolated monuments but had not yet put its brand on urban space. Like other European cities, it was still emerging from its medieval past. But in a mere century Paris would be...(展开全部)

不要懷疑，所有的問題都可以用圖畫來釐清。你不用具備什麼繪畫技巧，只要會畫圓圈、方塊、箭頭，然後按照作者的指示，一步一步，就可以學會「視覺化思考」的技巧，終身受用！你只需要3樣東西，就可以開始：用肉眼觀察、打開「內心的眼睛」，還有你的雙手。 完整的視覺化思考過程有4個環節：觀看、觀察、設想、展示。有5個架構指標，能幫我們打開內心的眼睛，用SQVID來代表：簡單∕精細、重質／重量、想法∕做法、個別／比較、變化／現狀。6種觀察和呈現的方式：6個W：誰／什麼、多少、何處、何時、如何、為何。

There is an emerging consensus that urban street layouts should be planned with greater attention to 'placemaking' and urban design quality, while maintaining the conventional transport functions of accessibility and connectivity. However, it is not always clear how this might be achieved: we still tend to have different sets of guidance for main road networks and for local str...(展开全部)

When Dad loses his car keys, little Mary suggests they might be down the back of the chair. Join in the fun as Dad begins the search, finding everything from a hairy string to a diamond ring--and much, much more Could the solution to all the family's problems be down the back of the chair? A lively rhyming text and quirky art come together in this visual explosion of fun and i...(展开全部)